No President Left Behind

It gives me great national pride to hear President Bush comment on yesterday's terrorist (pronounced "turrist") bombing in Egypt as "a heinous (pronouncing it "hayn-ee-ous") act." Try NPR or any of the other major news sites for the sound bite.

(Implying, of course, that a unilateral, unjustified war that kills thousands of civilians, creates new generations of turrists, and spawns sectarian civil war, is NOT a heinous act.)

Perhaps if he had been subjected to years of mindless, creativity-stifling, curriculum-dominating standardized testing to identify failing schools, he would understand that the word is, and always has been, pronounced "hayn-ous." Rhymes with "anus," as in the sentence "President Bush is a horse's anus." (Note to PETA: this is merely an instructional example and not meant to denigrate animals.)